October 2013 Calendar Updates

CARNEGIE HALL OCTOBER 2013 CALENDAR UPDATES

The Philadelphia Orchestra and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin launch Carnegie Hall’s 2013–2014 season with a Gala Opening Night concert, performing Tchaikovsky’s Slavonic March, Op. 31, Saint-Saëns’s Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila, and Ravel’s Boléro. Violinist Joshua Bell is featured in Saint-Saëns’s Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28, and Ravel’s Tzigane. Vocalist and double bassist Esperanza Spalding joins the orchestra for three works from her acclaimed album Chamber Music Society in new arrangements commissioned by Carnegie Hall, and arranged by Gil Goldstein.

The New York Pops and Music Director Steven Reineke kick off their Carnegie Hall season with jazz trumpet superstar Chris Botti (pictured at right) in An Evening With Chris Botti, featuring his Grammy Award-nominated spin on favorites that include "Over the Rainbow," "Summertime," and "When I Fall in Love."

The Mariinsky Orchestra performs three concerts in celebration of Music Director Valery Gergiev’s 60th birthday. Each concert focuses on a different Russian composer with repertoire that is closely associated with Maestro Gergiev: Stravinsky (ballets The Firebird, Pétrouchka, and Le sacre du printemps) on October 10; Shostakovich (Piano Concerto No. 1 with Denis Matsuev and Symphony No. 8) on October 11; and Rachmaninoff (Piano Concerto No. 3 with Mr. Matsuev and Symphonic Dances) on October 15.

The Silk Road Ensemble and Artistic Director Yo-Yo Ma return to Carnegie Hall in celebration of its 15th anniversary with a program including the New York premieres of John Zorn’s Suite from Book of Angels, Vijay Iyer’s Playlist for an Extreme Occasion, and David Bruce’s Cut the Rug, as well as performances of past Ensemble favorites: Angel Lam’s Empty Mountain, Spirit Rain; Giovanni Sollima’s The Taranta Project; and Jia Daqun’s The Prospect of Colored Desert.

Kicking off Carnegie Hall’s season-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth, tenor Ian Bostridge, countertenor Iestyn Davies, baritone Joshua Hopkins, and pianist Julius Drake performing the composer’s complete Canticles, as well as arrangements of Purcell songs by Britten, Michael Tippett, and Thomas Adès. French horn player Leelanee Sterrett and harpist Bridget Kibbey also appear on the program.

ANGEL HEART: A MUSIC STORYBOOKMonday, October 21 at 7:30 p.m.(Zankel Hall) CONCERT ADDITION: The Angel Heart Music Foundation in partnership with Carnegie Hall presents a Family Concert entitled Angel Heart, a story of a young girl who finds peace after heartbreak with the help of a petulant guardian angel. The performance has familiar songs and lullabies with story by Cornelia Funke, and new music by composer Luna Pearl Woolf and features Matt Haimovitz and Uccello, soprano Lisa Delan, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, countertenor Daniel Taylor, baritone Bruce Rameker, mandolin player Avi Avital, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

Ensemble ACJW launches its Carnegie Hall season on Monday, October 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Weill Recital Hall, playing the premiere of a new work by Andy Akiho, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, in addition to Dvorák’s String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, and works by Monteverdi, Stuart Breczinski, Thomas Bergeron, and Doug Balliett. (The program is also presented on Friday, October 18 at 8:00 p.m. at Ladd Concert Hall at the Arthur Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.)

Five-time Grammy Award-nominated singer, pianist, and renowned interpreter of the Great American Songbook Michael Feinstein launches his annual Carnegie Hall series, Standard Time with Michael Feinstein. Guest artists and program are to be announced.

Kicking off its three-concert Orchestra Underground series, American Composers Orchestra welcomes conductor Robert Spano (pictured at right), who leads a program featuring the world premieres of Ian Williams’s Clear Image No. 1 and Peter Fahey’s A Mirror to Kathleen’s Face, as well as Julia Wolfe’s Fuel (with film by Bill Morrison) and Christopher Theofanidis’s Bassoon Concerto featuring soloist Martin Kuuskmann.

Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano is joined by her husband, the pianist Christopher Cano, for a recital of works by Korngold, Poulenc, Schubert, Gurney, Britten, Howells, Vaughan Williams, Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Sviridov, and Rachmaninoff.

Known for her larger-than-life stage personality and fearsome dance chops, Eva Ayllón, the “Queen of landó,” a traditional Afro-Peruvian musical form, infuses her music with colorful sounds from the coastal plains of Lima, as well as her country’s indigenous, African, and Spanish musical heritage.

PROGRAM UPDATE:A program has been announced for soprano Jessica Rivera and mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor’s joint recital with frequent collaborator Robert Spano at the piano. It includes the New York premieres of David Bruce’s “That Time With You” and Jonathan Leshnoff’s Monica Songs, both co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, the New York premiere of Gabriela Lena Frank’s Kitchen Songs, plus music by Saint-Saëns, Mompou, Gounod, and Mendelssohn.

As part of his two-season, cross-venue Bach project, pianist András Schiff performs the complete Partitas on October 30 and a program pairing the Goldberg Variations with Beethoven’s Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli on November 5.